Lifestyle

Navigating your college campus isn’t always simple, especially since there’s so much more to the college experience than academics. We’ve created this section to help you find answers to anything that comes up about student life, from learning the symptoms of mononucleosis to deciding whether you should get a pet. These posts cover common questions about student health and wellness, weekend culture and recreation, cheap ways to celebrate all the big holidays, love and interpersonal relationships, and housing.

How Exercise and Exposure to Nature Help You Recover from Addiction — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Jackie Cortez. We would like to thank her for her submission and credit her as the author of this blog post.Developing a substance abuse disorder is easier than you might think. In fact, the 2016 Monitoring the Future Survey found that over 32% […]

How Exercise and Exposure to Nature Help You Recover from Addiction

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on February 9, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Mike Jones. We would like to thank him for his submission and credit him as the author of this blog post. You can learn more about him on Twitter. Working out regularly is beneficial not only to your physical health, but also […]

Easy Ways to Stay Fit When You’re Busy with School

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on February 2, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Could My Anxiety and Depression Actually Be Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder? — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Brett Buchert. We would like to thank her for her submission and credit her as the author of this blog post. Staying healthy in college is a battle. Maintaining your mental health can be even harder. In fact, according to the 2013 National […]

Could My Anxiety and Depression Actually Be PMDD?

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on January 26, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Is an Unhealthy Lifestyle Hindering Your Ability to Learn? — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Helen Sanders, Chief Editor at Health Ambition. We would like to thank her for her submission and credit her as the author of this blog post. Sorry to be the one to say this, but what your parents say is true! Getting […]

Is an Unhealthy Lifestyle Hindering Your Ability to Learn?

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on January 19, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. — Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929, when segregation was a way of life in the United States. He was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a Baptist minister, and a civil rights […]

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

This entry was posted in Recreation on January 15, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

How to Respond to Cyberbullying — Last month, we published a blog post titled How to Recognize Cyberbullying, where we defined cyberbullying as purposeful repeated, unwanted, aggressive behavior (both physical and verbal) that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. In this post, we will go one step further and discuss how you can respond to a cyberbully. Studies […]

How to Respond to Cyberbullying

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on January 10, 2018 by Shannon Whitney

How to Prevent Illness and Cope with Being Sick at College — No one enjoys being sick, but when you’re a college student, it’s going to happen sooner or later. Living in close quarters and sharing communal bathrooms, not to mention spending all your time in the same four(ish) buildings on campus, makes it easy for bacteria and viruses to travel from […]

How to Prevent Illness and Cope with Being Sick at College

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on December 10, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Giving Quality Holiday Gifts on a Budget — It’s officially the holiday season! Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Christmas, the month of December is sure to be eventful. With all the hype and excitement, there also comes the pressure of deciding what to give to the important people in your life. As a student, finding the funds […]

Giving Quality Holiday Gifts on a Budget

This entry was posted in Recreation on December 1, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

How to Recognize Cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is a new take on an old concept. Before getting into the cyber aspect of it, though, it’s first important to understand what the term bullying actually means. As a teacher, I heard many students (and parents) accuse others of bullying. Sometimes, they were right. Many other times, it was students just being […]

How to Recognize Cyberbullying

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on November 25, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

Surviving Black Friday and Cyber Monday — Thanksgiving has become an incredibly commercial season. Between Black Friday deals, which start sooner and sooner each year, and Cyber Monday, which is the stay-at-home shopper’s favorite, people spend tons of money. In 2015, more than 151 million people shopped over Thanksgiving weekend, and that’s excluding the Cyber Monday shoppers. The same year, Black […]

Surviving Black Friday and Cyber Monday

This entry was posted in Recreation on November 22, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Easy Ways to Contribute to Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving — Are you looking forward Thanksgiving break? It gives you the perfect excuse to relax all day while watching the Macy’s Day Parade and football, eating some delicious foods, and spending time with the important people in your life. When I was in college, I was lucky enough to have extended […]

Easy Ways to Contribute to Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving

This entry was posted in Recreation on November 16, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

How to Deal with Noisy Neighbors in College — We’ve told you how to be a decent roommate, but we haven’t given you much advice about what to do if your neighbors, be they next door, across the hall, above you, or below you, are the problem. If you live in the college dorms, the most common complaint you’ll hear […]

How to Deal with Noisy Neighbors in College

This entry was posted in Housing on November 13, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

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